Veeam announces 2 new appointments to boost its South African leadership team

Tracy Lona and Abdullah Mohamed bring the market-building experience, partner focus,?and technical depth we need as we continue to scale our presence locally

Brendan Widlake, Regional Director at Veeam Software South Africa

Veeam®?Software?has announced two senior appointments in its South African business as it continues to invest in local market growth and partner engagement.?  

Tracy Lona joins Veeam as Territory Manager for South Africa’s commercial business.  She brings more than 25 years of enterprise technology sales experience, with a track record of building markets and high-performing teams across Sub-Saharan Africa. Before joining Veeam, Tracy spent over a decade at Red Hat, where she led regional expansion, achieving and exceeding quotas alongside the partner ecosystem and channel across multiple countries. Her earlier roles include senior sales positions at Dell and Bytes. 

Abdullah Mohamed joins as Technical Account Manager,?providing?proactive technical guidance and support to Veeam customers in South Africa. He brings hands-on experience in network and voice infrastructure, operational support, system upgrades, backup?management?and performance monitoring. Prior to Veeam, Abdullah held engineering and customer success roles at Mimecast and BCX. 

“South African organisations are under growing pressure to strengthen their cyber resilience and recovery capabilities, and Veeam’s extensive local presence, underpinned by the largest regionally focused team of any data resilience vendor, supports a highly capable channel ecosystem that plays a central role in delivering that value,” said Brendan Widlake, Regional Director at Veeam Software South Africa. “Tracy and Abdullah bring the market-building experience, partner focus,?and technical depth we need as we continue to scale our presence locally.”?